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Calandra (1558)

Author: Dovizi, Bernardo, da Bibbiena, 1470-1520; Giunta, Filippo, 1533-1600, printer; Giunta, Jacopo, d. 1591, printer; Giunta family
Publisher: In Fiorenza : [I Giunti]
Year: 1558
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: Italian
Call number: SRLF_UCLAYRLSC:LAGE-5744918
Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive
Book contributor: University of California Libraries
Collection: itcom; cdl; americana; university_of_california_libraries
Notes: Pages not asserted because pagination appears on only one side of the book.
Scanfactors: 1

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Five-act Italian Renaissance commedia, adapted from Plautus' Menaechmi by Bernardo Dovizi, later appointed cardinal by Pope Leo X. It was the first comedy of note written in Italian prose, and also one of the first modern plays to include cross-dressing characters

Printing date of 1559 in colophon: "In Fiorenza, appresso i Giunti. MDLIX."

Signatures: A-E F

Woodcuts: title vignette, repeated on colophon (a later Giunta device featuring a lily plant, entwined with a serpent)

Italic type

Decia, D. I Giunti tipografi editori di Firenze

Clubb, L.G. Italian plays

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600

Allacci, L. Drammaturgia

Gamba, B. Serie dei testi di lingua

Adams

Brunet

Spec. Coll. copy: 18th-century mottled tan calf; triple gilt fillet; ornamental gilt spine, with gold-stamped title "Calandra. Commedia"; inner gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; edges stained red. Purchase, Maggs Bros., 1999

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